UNSPSC 50406001: Atlantic shallots

The variety of shallots known as atlantic shallots

UNSPSC 50406001 Atlantic shallots is a Commodity code that names a single produce line item, but state and local governments buying fresh vegetables for school nutrition programs, institutional food service, and senior services rarely solicit shallots specifically. Instead, they procure fresh produce in bulk across dozens of line items—apples, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, broccoli, onions, peppers, and seasonal items—where shallots, if sourced at all, appear as one option among many general-produce vendors. School districts, county food authorities, state corrections agencies, and municipal senior services departments that have posted recent opportunities all use broader fresh-produce or grocery-item codes to describe their actual purchasing. The code itself is too narrow to map cleanly to recent state and local solicitation activity; the opportunities posted between February and July 2026 consistently name schools, districts, corrections departments, and counties seeking fresh vegetables as mixed-produce bundles, not category-specific items like shallots.

Geographic spread across recent opportunities is heavily concentrated in Georgia, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, and Missouri, with Georgia school districts (Bartow County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Glynn County, Liberty County, Savannah-Chatham County, Henry County, Douglas County through the GEC cooperative) representing the single largest cluster. Texas agencies—the Department of Criminal Justice, Northside ISD in San Antonio, Austin ISD, and McAllen ISD—account for the second major block. Representative recent solicitations include Bartow County Schools' RFP 10-2026-019 for local fresh fruits and vegetables due June 22, 2026, covering seasonal produce within 400 miles; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's IFB IW241979 for carrots (1,200 tons) due March 17, 2026; and Douglas County Schools' RFP SN 26-004 through the GEC Buying Cooperative for fresh produce and eggs across 30 school districts, covering approximately 72 line items with annual estimated spending of $4.4 million for Area One, proposals due March 4, 2026. The code shows no recent standalone shallot bids and would require significant repositioning to align with actual institutional fresh-produce procurement demand, which clusters around mixed-vegetable and mixed-fruit supply contracts tied to school nutrition, corrections food service, and child-care programs.